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1st
Lowndes Co State of Miss
Nov 1870
We the undersigned committee appointed at your last meeting to report a constitution and by laws for the agricultural society of Lowndes Co beg leave to report the following
We the Planters of Lowndes County feeling that the prosperity and hapiness [sic] of our people are dependent to a great extent upon the success of agriculture, and deploring its present languishing condition, in order to secure a more perfect and remunerative system, concert of action, harmony of interest, and to correct the errors and evils into which we have fallen and promote the general good, do addopt [sic] and establish the following constitution.
1st The officers of the society shall be elected, and consist of a President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer.
2nd The duties of the President shall be to preside at the meetings and enforce such by laws and rules as may be addopted [sic], and in case of a tie vote upon any question to cast the deciding vote
3rd The duties of the Vice President shall be to discharge the duties of the President in his absence

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1st
Lowndes Co State of Miss
Nov 1870
We the undersigned committee appointed at your last meeting to report a constitution and by laws for the agricultural society of Lowndes Co beg leave to report the following
We the Planters of Lowndes County feeling that the prosperity and hapiness [sic] of our people are dependent to a great extent upon the success of agriculture, and deploring its present languishing condition, in order to secure a more perfect and remunerative system, concert of action, harmony of interest, and to correct the errors and evils into which we have fallen and promote the general good, do addopt [sic] and establish the following constitution.
1st The officers of the society shall be elected, and consist of a President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer.
2nd The duties of the President shall be to preside at the meetings and enforce such by laws and rules as may be addopted [sic], and in case of a tie vote upon any question to cast the deciding vote
3rd The duties of the Vice President shall be to discharge the duties of the President in his absence
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4th The duties of the secretary shall be to keep a correct account of the essential proceedings of the society and to act as corresponding secretary
5th The duties of the Treasuror [sic] shall be to receive and disburse all moneys of the society in accordance with its orders, which are to be signed by the President and secretary
6th This organization shall be called The Lowndes County Agricultural Society
7th All persons who feel an interest in agriculture are invited to become members of the society, and are required to enroll their names on a book to be kept by the secretary, and must obligate themselves to abide by whatever may be the decision of a majority of the society
8th The Society shall meet once a month at the court house, and the President may convene it oftener if he deem it necessary
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9th The powers of this society shall extend to all questions pertaining to agriculture, and shall have power to modify the general features of whatever system of contracts, planting and it may be addopted [sic] to suit the exigencies of particular cases. It shall have power to enforce by penalties whatever in the judgement of a majority of its members may be promotive of the publick [sic] good, and its penal powers shall extend to fines and expulsion
10th The object of the society being are [sic] interchanges of views, dissemination of light on subjects, and harmony and concert of action. All business shall be taken up regularly, and all questions to be considered and discussed at a subsequent meeting to be proposed and agreed upon at the previous meeting

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1st
Lowndes Co State of Miss
Nov 1870
We the undersigned committee appointed at your last meeting to report a constitution and by laws for the agricultural society of Lowndes Co beg leave to report the following
We the Planters of Lowndes County feeling that the prosperity and hapiness [sic] of our people are dependent to a great extent upon the success of agriculture, and deploring its present languishing condition, in order to secure a more perfect and remunerative system, concert of action, harmony of interest, and to correct the errors and evils into which we have fallen and promote the general good, do addopt [sic] and establish the following constitution.
1st The officers of the society shall be elected, and consist of a President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer.
2nd The duties of the President shall be to preside at the meetings and enforce such by laws and rules as may be addopted [sic], and in case of a tie vote upon any question to cast the deciding vote
3rd The duties of the Vice President shall be to discharge the duties of the President in his absence